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Friday, March 9, 2012

Writing Goals

It's been a little over a week since the first Are You Writing Now? Post. My goals were set and I was pretty hopeful I'd be able to work on them. I could do this!

I'm just gonna say it, I suck when it comes to goals.

A couple days after my post, I opened Being Vampire and stared. And stared. And stared. Then I ranted on twitter. Got some ideas from friends on what to try. (Thanks by the way.) I closed the file and knitted some, trying to figure out why I could not write this story. It really frustrated and stressed me. Finally, I just said screw it. If Drew's not going to talk to me, I'm not going to try. I'll play with one of my other characters.

So, yup, after a few days, I abandoned my goals. In my defense, I've kinda set new ones. I'm editing Snapshots and getting about 5K edited a day, so unofficially, my new goal is to edit 5K every time I sit down to edit. Secretly, I'm also hoping maybe Drew will get jealous and come out of hiding, but he's not the jealous type. He tends to wait patiently while I deal with other characters and then still refuse to talk much. I've taken to calling him a brat... Has he been talking to Daniel????

Maybe he's just feeling pressured (or stubborn) and when you leave him alone for awhile, he'll come around. Use a little reverse psychology...'that's fine, I don't feel like talking to you right now either, so I'll just go do something else...something more important.' hahaEditing is good though - at least it's something productive and you haven't just given up entirely. I personally found editing to be the most time consuming and exhausting part, so you're doing good!